Mechanical properties of excised human skin
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Annaidh, A. Ní, Ottenio, M., Bruyère, K., Destrade, M., & Gilchrist, M. D. (2010). Mechanical Properties of Excised Human Skin. In C. T. Lim & J. C. H. Goh (Eds.), 6th World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB 2010). August 1-6, 2010 Singapore: In Conjunction with 14th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME) and 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Biomechanics (APBiomech) (pp. 1000-1003). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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Abstract
In this study we have investigated in influence of
location, gender and orientation on the deformation characteristics
of 55 samples of human excised skin. Uniaxial tensile
tests were carried out at a strain rate of 0.012s-1 on excised
human skin from the back. The deformation characteristics of
skin (Ultimate Tensile Strength (P<0.0001), Failure Strain
(P=0.0177), Young s Modulus (P<0.0076), Initial Slope
(P=0.0375) and Strain Energy (P=0.0101)) were found to be
dependent upon the orientation of specimens with respect to
the Langer s Lines. The location of specimens on the back was
also found to have a significant effect on the Ultimate Tensile
Strength (P =0.0002), the Young s Modulus (P=0.0017) and the
Strain Energy (P=0.005).
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